Does anybody here know anything about or have any personal experiences related to the minor deity Horea, attested to be a wife of Set? My Cleopatra Djinn claims to be closely associated with her but literally the only information on her I can find is in a single book, the "Encyclopedia of ancient deities", which has no more to say about her than that.
I even went as far as reaching out to one of the authors of it but unfortunately did not get a response.
My Djinn and the Goddess Horea
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Interesting!jdhthegr8 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:33 pm Does anybody here know anything about or have any personal experiences related to the minor deity Horea, attested to be a wife of Set? My Cleopatra Djinn claims to be closely associated with her but literally the only information on her I can find is in a single book, the "Encyclopedia of ancient deities", which has no more to say about her than that.
I even went as far as reaching out to one of the authors of it but unfortunately did not get a response.
The Wikipedia page for Horea as a wife of Set has been changed to a redirect to an article about Norea/Horea - a Gnostic figure.
Have you seen this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Horea_(mythology)
It records the discussion that led to blanking the Wikpedia article. The contributors appear to have discovered - or believe - there were no actual sources that back up the existence of Horea as an Egyptian being (and a wife of Set). Only some Christian writer who originally made that claim out of nowhere and could have misread or mis-written 'Horus'.
There have got to have been loads of minor Egyptian deities for which there is no longer much of a written record. Horea seems like one.
You might get better info direct from your Cleopatra Djinn.
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Oh wow, I have some reading to do now with the sources on that talk page! Can't believe I missed it right under my nose. Particularly interesting is the second source that user referenced, "The Hypostasis of the Archons" in that it is from 1970, a full 3 decades before the Encyclopedia I had referenced.
My Djinn has expressed that Horea was a particularly close associate of Hathor, and that her relationship with Set was "complicated" but that's about as far as I had dug to this point with her alone. Indeed, whether the human attestations of Horea are based on a misunderstanding or not, this does give me new avenues for talking to her about the topic.
My Djinn has expressed that Horea was a particularly close associate of Hathor, and that her relationship with Set was "complicated" but that's about as far as I had dug to this point with her alone. Indeed, whether the human attestations of Horea are based on a misunderstanding or not, this does give me new avenues for talking to her about the topic.
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How did you even find that much? I did a quick Google search and got either Horus or Nepthys.
I did find out that Set had many wives and some were not even from the Egyptian pantheon. Which may explain why it was "complicated".
I did find out that Set had many wives and some were not even from the Egyptian pantheon. Which may explain why it was "complicated".
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